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California Secretary of State Alex Padilla appeared to tear up when Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) asked him to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

The moment was captured in a video recording and tweeted out to the governor’s 1.9 million followers, receiving more than 1.8 million views and 37,700 “likes.” Padilla told the New York Times the next day that he didn’t realize the conversation was being recorded.

“Yes — that excerpt was recorded unbeknownst to me,” the senator-designee told the newspaper. “I was overwhelmed with emotion.”

A spokesman for Padilla said the ...